Rossini: Quartets for Flute & Strings / Guidetti, Simoncini, Comuzzi

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Tactus
Release Date
October 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Gioachino Rossini
    • PERFORMER
      Luca, Alessandro, Simoncini, Nicola, Simoncini, Demetrio, Guidetti, Comuzzi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 07, 2022
    • UPC
      8007194107906
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TC791806
    • LABEL
      Tactus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Moderato

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    4. I. Allegro

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    5. II. Andante

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    6. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    7. I. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    8. II. Andante

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    9. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    10. I. Allegro spiritoso

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    11. II. Andante assai

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini

    12. III. Allegro tempesta

      Composer: Gioachino Rossini

      Performer: Nicola Guidetti, Alessandro Simoncini, Demetrio Comuzzi, Luca Simoncini


Although now Rossini is remembered for his operatic production, his career had begun as a composer of chamber music. In 1804 the 12-year-old Gioachino was invited to spend the summer in the villa of his friend Agostino Triossi in Conventello. This rich landowner, who was an amateur double-bass player, was in the habit of organising concerts and musical gatherings: Rossini composed many instrumental pieces for him. The "Sei sonate a quattro for two violins, cello and double-bass" were composed for one of these occasions.

As Rossini himself related, “They are six horrible sonatas, composed by me during a holiday near Ravenna, in the house of my friend and patron Agostino Triossi, at a more than childish age, when I had not even had a single accompaniment lesson, and the whole thing was composed and copied in three days and performed dreadfully by Triossi, double-bass, Morini (his cousin) first violin, his brother, cello, and the second violin was me, who, to own the truth, was the least dreadful.”

We must not be misled by such a negative opinion. These sonatas, though elementary from a formal point of view, are genuine and quite inspired: the contrast between the brilliant passages and the lyrical/sentimental ones already reveals what a skillful opera composer Rossini was to become.